Restoration & Fire Ecology

Wildlife Conservation & Management

Wildlife Conservation & Management

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Watershed Management & Ecohydrology

Global Change Ecology

Administrative Associate at the Natural Products Center / Sunnyside Facility. Responsibilities include assisting the Director and Faculty with various projects associated with budgets and proposals, monitoring and reconciling accounts within the division, preparing visa applications and hiring paperwork for onsite staff, and overall management of Sunnyside Storage.

Brenda Barry joined the University of Arizona in January of 2023 as the Director of Corporate Relations for the College of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences.

I am an ecologist with expertise in plant-soil interactions, microbial ecology, and soil carbon cycling. Much of my research focuses on understanding how the complexity of soil microbial communities influence plant and ecosystem function. I am passionate about using rigorous science in conjunction with stakeholder partnerships to solve read-world environmental challenges. Currently I am a postdoctoral research associate working with the Lien lab and the Utah-based non-profit Working Lands Conservation (WLC).

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Watershed Management & Ecohydrology

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James L.

Responsible for accounting activities in the department business office. Assists with Pcard Compliance, GECs, SETs, DVs, travel, deposits, voyager fuel card, invoices to outside vendors, payments to vendors, monthly reconciliations.

Wildlife Conservation & Management

I assist prospective and current graduate students for all SNRE graduate programs.

Wildlife Conservation & Management

Donald Falk is a Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona, with joint appointments in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and the Arizona Institutes for Resilience. He holds degrees from Oberlin College, Tufts University, and the University of Arizona, where he received his PhD in 2004.

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Kristen Fought is responsible for planning, supervising, and implementing events, programs and communications for CALES alumni and friends. She is the liaison for the Alumni Council Board of Directors and, with the help of the team, she will coordinate alumni events including homecoming and the annual awards dinner.

Watershed Management & Ecohydrology

Global Change Ecology

Ecology, Management & Restoration of Rangelands

Dr. Shang Gao serves as Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. Before joining the University of Arizona, Shang worked at the University of Oklahoma (OU) as a postdoctoral research associate. He obtained his Ph.D. in civil engineering at University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). By training, Dr. Gao is a hydrologist studying two ends of the hydrologic spectrum, i.e., floods and droughts. He combinedly utilizes hydrologic models, remote sensing observations, and data-driven methods to understand the surface water dynamics.

Watershed Management & Ecohydrology

Alessandra Gorlier earned her Ph.D. in “Sustainable Pasture and Forage Systems for Land Management and Animal Product Quality” at the University of Florence (Italy), and her 5-year degree in “Forestry and Environmental Sciences” at the University of Turin (Italy). For fifteen years, she worked with the Grassland Ecology and Management group of the University of Turin, Dept. of Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences, where she fulfilled responsibilities in national and international projects and conducted research on grassland communities and grazing management.

Watershed Management & Ecohydrology

I assist the department with event planning & advertising including the Seminar Series, faculty affairs, the department newsletter (SNRE Weekly Digest). website updates, onboarding, key and room reservation requests, and other miscellaneous support. 

Ecology, Management & Restoration of Rangelands

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Ecology, Management & Restoration of Rangelands

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Ecology, Management & Restoration of Rangelands

Management of budgeting, auditing & financial aspects of SNRE. Work with the Director to insure financial stability of the School. Manage business office personnel to meet needs of the School. Provide HR, Payroll, Grant Management, & support to faculty/research staff concerning financial, technical and operational matters.

I am conducting interdisciplinary research to address how vegetation responds to climate variability and long-term change and ecosystem recovery and resilience under extreme events. I combine multiple datasets, including eddy-covariance, remote sensing, and tree ring with Earth system models, employing tools from physics-based theories to machine learning techniques to gain a mechanistic of biological process to inform projections under future climate change scenarios better.

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Wildlife Conservation & Management

• Development and implementation of citizen science wildlife monitoring with geospatial data contributions.
• Ongoing development of a web based integrated geodatabase with access to analytical tools.

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